The debt ceiling debate could complicate the farm bill process. “One thing that keeps me up at night is this whole debate about whether or not our country is going to default because that is very real,” said Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow. “We lived through this when I first took over chairing the committee in 2011. Ten years later, there’s a 5.7 percent cut in the commodity tiles and other existing programs from what was called sequestration.” Stabenow said if across-the-board budget cuts resurface, it will make it very difficult to write a farm bill.
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